May 8 – Gary Snyder’s Birthday

Gary Snyder’s 85th birthday today.  Here’s Gary interviewed by Eliot Weinberger back in 1992, for the Paris Review

Here the full interview that appeared four years later in the Paris Review. 

Here‘s more recent Snyder (from last month) interviewed on NPR and reading from his newest book, This Present Moment 

(April 22) Colorado College lecture and reading, “The Practice of the Wild”

Looking forward to John Suiter‘s upcoming biography .
Here‘s an excerpt from Suiter-on-Gary (from his wonderful Poets on the Peaks)

and not forgetting the Ginsberg-Snyder correspondence

Previous Gary Snyder birthday salutes on the Allen Ginsberg Project here, here, here
and here

Happy Birthday, Gary!